A-Designs Audio

A-DESIGNS AUDIO is an American company which designs, develops and manufactures high quality equipment for the audio industry professional, hand-crafted with a commitment to quality without compromise.

The range includes solid state and all-valve microphone preamps and e.q’s, compressors, channel strips, passive audio line-level controllers, and what has become an Industry Standard valve DI box – the REDDI (now also available as a two channel rack mount called the REDDI V2 – the ultimate studio DI)

A-Designs Audio boasts a combined total of more than 60 years in Pro-Audio engineering, marketing, sales and service experience. This lean, effective, California-based enterprise operates with precision and control, keeping the end price as attractive as possible while making products which offer the utmost in pro performance, features, and plain usability. Independent proof of this is provided by the extraordinary number of highly positive reviews over the last 4 years.

Innovativeness and creativity fuel this process, while straightforward contact with customers and audiences helps “keep them real”. Their motto, “Quality Without Compromise”, expresses a commitment to the highest standards, augmented with creativity and the promise of friendly professional service – from real people!

All products are field tested before release by professionals in “real-world” working environments, and put through a punishing test routine. This guarantees the dependability and reliability needed in a working environment.

A-DESIGNS AUDIO – a range of handcrafted products, superbly engineered, quality-manufactured, and supported with the highest level of service.

“I say this quite seriously: the Pacifica went immediately to the top of my list for recording electric guitar, not on the grounds that if it can make me sound good it must be brilliant, but on the grounds that what it delivered to tape was just what the PRS/Mesa should sound like, and does sound like live, but in my experience rarely does so on record.”

ATM Cables

Celestion Chassis Speakers

Galaxy Audio

McGregor Amplification

MTR Audio

RaxX

stageClix

ADesigns

REDDI All Tube Direct Box

The sound of the REDDI all-tube direct box on my bass and guitars is dramatic. When people come in and listen, they just go “WOW what’s that? What did you do to get that sound?” “It not only delivers on bass and keys, but just out and out kills on acoustic guitars with pickups. It puts something on the sound that makes them jump and be present in the mix without that “electric-type” sound.

I didn’t use an amp at all. I used only the REDDI and it sounded really, really nice.

Justin Meldal-Johnsen, bassist with Beck

REDDI All Tube Direct Box

The New REDDI DI from A Designs kicks ass…

Ross Hogarth, Grammy Award-winning producer, engineer, mixer

PACIFICA

I say this quite seriously: the Pacifica went immediately to the top of my list for recording electric guitar, not on the grounds that if it can make me sound good it must be brilliant, but on the grounds that what it delivered to tape was just what the PRS/Mesa should sound like, and does sound like live, but in my experience rarely does so on record.

After hearing so many good reports about the Pacifica I had to try one out for myself. Frankly I was stunned. Everything I have tracked with it has a beautiful air and sheen around it that just sit beautifully in the mix. It has brought my mic collection to life – both the expensive and the inexpensive. I am currently trying to offload as much gear as I can, and my soul if necessary, to get a bunch of them!

If I had to start over, the Pacifica would be the first preamp I would buy. I’ve never heard a preamp with a 70’s character that has such an open top end. It’s the most versatile preamp in our collection of 11 types of preamps.

Jason Buntz-Engineer/ Studio Owner/ Indie

PACIFICA

My overall impression is that it sits in there like a nice cross between Neve-ish and API-ish tones but with better transient response and more high end detail…overall very musical. I swear it went another octave above the API and Great River. I can see it being an extremely versatile preamp that would get a lot of use on everything. Perfect for a small studio like mine that can’t afford to have 20 different specialty preamps.

Brad McGowan-Little Red Wagon Studios/ Engineer/ Indie

PACIFICA

Definitely a color that I could ‘paint’ the whole album with. I thought I was done buying preamps until this one arrived; it was like the last piece in the jigsaw puzzle that made the picture complete. Now, what am I going to tell my wife?

Barrett Nichols-Engineer/ Producer: Alpha Jerk Studio, Indie

PACIFICA

With thousands of dollars in vintage microphones at hand, only the Pacifica makes them sound the way I expect every time, now that I have heard it, no other mic pre will do.

If you are thinking something along the lines of an API pre, you really owe it to yourself to play around with the new A Designs Pacifica preamp. It has a similar feel/sound in the lows and mids (huge low end with slightly forward, but not obnoxious mids) but a top end that is extended and beautiful. On orchestral recording, it makes you sit up and take notice of the orchestra on the loud stuff, but yet has the subtlety needed for chamber music.